Pace

Definition

pace 1 /peÇs/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ေျခတစ္လွမ္း။ ေျခလွမ္း။ အလွမ္း။ She took two paces forward. ❍ To be a really good runner he needs to lengthen his pace a little. (ခ) အလွမ္း။ ေျခလွမ္း။ Competitors must stand at a distance of 20 paces from each other. ၂။ [U, sing] (က) ေျခလွမ္း (က်ဲက်ဲ၊ စိပ္စိပ္၊ ေလးေလး၊ သြက္သြက္ စသည္ျဖင့္)။ at a good/ fast/ slow/ walking pace ❍ quicken one's pace ❍ She slackened her pace so I could keep up with her. (ခ) အရိွန္။ The ball gathered pace as it rolled down the hill. ၃။ [U, sing] (က) အဟုန္။ increasing the pace of reform. (ခ) ေအးေဆးတည္ၿငိမ္မႈ (သို႔) သြက္လက္မႈ (သို႔) ကသုတ္ကရက္ ႏိုင္မႈ။ I like the slow pace of life in the country. ❍ This novel lacks pace (ie its plot develops too slowly). He gave up his job in advertising because he couldn't take/stand the pace. See also PACY v ၁။ ေခါက္တံု႔ေခါက္ျပန္ ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းသည္။ He paced up and down (the platform), waiting for the train. ❍ She seemed agitated, restlessly pacing about. ❍ He paced the streets all night long. ၂။ (ဇာတ္ကြက္ဆင္မႈ စသည္) ခ်ိန္ကိုက္သည္။ The play was badly paced. ၃။ ~ oneself (မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ) တြက္ဆပိုင္းျခားသည္။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္သည္။ You need to pace yourself in a job like this. ❏ go through/ show one's paces [ IDM ] အစြမ္းျပသည္။ လက္စြမ္းျပသည္။ ေျခစြမ္းျပသည္။ We watched the horses going through their paces. ❏ keep pace (with sb/ sth) [ IDM ] အမီလိုက္သည္။ ရင္ေပါင္တန္းလိုက္သည္။ The company must keep pace with changes in the market. ❍ Are wages keeping pace with inflation? ❏ pace sth off/ out [ PHRV ] (ေျခလွမ္းေပါင္း မည္မွ် ရိွသည္ကို) လွမ္းၾကည့္သည္။ She paced out the length of the room. ❏ put sb/ sth through their/ its paces [ IDM ] စြမ္းရည္ ဆန္းစစ္သည္။ put a new car through its paces ❍ Youngsters will be put through their paces by qualified instructors. ❏ set the pace [ IDM ] ေရွ႕ကေျပးေနသည္။ ဦးေဆာင္ ေနသည္။ This company is setting the pace in the home computer market. ❍ Willis set the pace in the first mile. pace 2 /'pɑ:keÇ, 'pɑ:tʃeÇ,'peÇsi/ prep ( Latin fml ) တစ္ဆိတ္ သည္းခံပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့။ Pace Professor Maxwell, the evidence suggests…

Examples

1. [the pace of something] : The pace of technological change increased steadily during the 20th century.
2. [the pace of life] : The pace of life in the village is slow and easy.
3. [at your own pace] : The course allows students to progress at their own pace.
4. [take a pace] : Charlie took a pace backwards.
5. I took a few paces towards her.
6. Twenty paces or so beyond the shed
7. the road twisted out of sight.
8. A player with pace as well as skill
9. [slow/quicken your pace] : He slowed his pace to observe where Jerome went.
10. [at a leisurely/brisk pace] : We proceeded at a leisurely pace down the corridor.
11. Her plays lack the pace and tension of her thrillers.